Beauchene’s insights about teaching and accountability are extremely thoughtful and supported by sold research findings. As and educational researcher whose research is standardized testing and accountability, I can attest to the failure of standardized achievement test such as OAT to meet test-validity requirements. The tests do not measure the impact schools or educator have on the students. They measure the effects of the out-of-school lived experience of the child. Therefore, they are not at all a reasonable basis for judging educator performance.
Likewise, there are two types of accountability: pseudo and authentic. Authentic accountability holds professionals responsible for those things and only those things over which they have professional control and decision latitude. Performance based upon standardized tests or, worse, value added measurements is pseudo accountability, an unfair and non-credible assessment. Educators and the public deserve authentic accountability systems.
I have been researching and analyzing the performance of all Ohio school districts over the past ten-year period. The analysis shows both Youngstown and Campbell to have extremely high levels of poverty. However, YCS has a significantly higher level than does Campbell.
There are dozens of things to evaluate a teacher on beyond the scores of standardized tests
Beauchene’s insights about teaching and accountability are extremely thoughtful and supported by sold research findings. As and educational researcher whose research is standardized testing and accountability, I can attest to the failure of standardized achievement test such as OAT to meet test-validity requirements. The tests do not measure the impact schools or educator have on the students. They measure the effects of the out-of-school lived experience of the child. Therefore, they are not at all a reasonable basis for judging educator performance.
Likewise, there are two types of accountability: pseudo and authentic. Authentic accountability holds professionals responsible for those things and only those things over which they have professional control and decision latitude. Performance based upon standardized tests or, worse, value added measurements is pseudo accountability, an unfair and non-credible assessment. Educators and the public deserve authentic accountability systems.
Randy L. Hoover, Ph. D.
YSU
November 15, 2009 at 11:33 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Resolving city schools dilemma
I have been researching and analyzing the performance of all Ohio school districts over the past ten-year period. The analysis shows both Youngstown and Campbell to have extremely high levels of poverty. However, YCS has a significantly higher level than does Campbell.
September 5, 2009 at 11:21 a.m. permalink suggest removal